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MYD Honored by The Chelsea Reform Democratic Club
On Saturday May 8, Ben Yee and I attended The Chelsea Reform Democratic Club’s annual fundraiser brunch at Niso’s Restaurant in Chelsea. CRDC President, Steven Skyles-Mulligan welcomed the impressive crowd to the event over a delicious array of brunch specialties. Guests included City Council Speaker Cristine Quinn, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and Congressman Jerry Nadler among others.
We were honored to have Congressman Nadler present us with an award:
From the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club in
Tagged Awards, carolyn maloney, CRDC, Jerry Nadler
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County Committee Executive Board Meeting 3/7/2010
In case you didn’t know, MYD ran and elected a number of young people to the exceptionally opaque County Committee last year. Now we’re bringing their information to you. Every month we’re sending a correspondent to the County Committee E-Board meeting to help you understand what’s going on under the covers of NY politics.
What follows is an account of the last County Committee E-Board meeting complete with their Congressional Candidates Forum during which all the candidates running for Congress… Read More
Tagged Bruce Hirschfield, carolyn maloney, Charles Rangel, county committee, jerrold nadler, lower Manhattan, myd, Reshma Saujani, Vincent Morgan
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New York Democracy?
Last week, Representative Carolyn Maloney, whose district covers the East Side of Manhattan and parts of Queens dropped her bid to challenge Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary. Borough President Scott Stringer also abandoned his exploratory efforts into running for the Senate seat. No matter what your thoughts are on Maloney, Stringer or Gillibrand individually, this all begs the question: when did New York get a government-by-appointment?
Clyde Haberman’s July 13th column for the New York… Read More
Gillibrand versus Maloney
House Representative Carolyn Maloney has decided to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary for the junior Senator’s seat in 2010.
The back story here is that when then-Senator Hillary Clinton was appointed by President Obama to become Secretary of State, Governor Paterson filled the vacancy with then-Representative Kirsten Gillibrand over others such as Caroline Kennedy and Rep Maloney. (Remember Scott Murphy? He filled Gillibrand’s empty House seat.) But Gillibrand will have to run for re-election come… Read More
Crusading New Yorkers
Some cheery news from beyond New York State borders! The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that state attorney generals have the right to investigate nationally-chartered banks for violating consumer protection laws.
NY AG Andrew Cuomo wanted to see if national banks were engaging in discriminatory practices by funnelling minorities into dangerous sub-prime loans. Fannie Mae estimates that more than
